The sunshine has gone to her head, I can't remember when I have seen such action around here! Let me explain the rather curious title.
The first out was a recycling trip, we do not need all these empty plastic tubs, the pile of which seem to grow ever upwards, so whoosh.. they all went off to the Recycling Depot in Danvers Street.
The next jaunt was to our local chemist, she had blitzed two small cupboards of out of date medicines and old vitamins, chemists are quite happy to dispose of them for you and she also dropped off some defunct batteries.
The next trip was back to New Horizons, a brilliant place in Cadogan Street which is staffed by volunteers and works in conjunction with AGE UK, their food is truly delicious and very reasonably priced. They have all manner of classes and activites every day, five days a week.
All the donations she gave yesterday went to this charity, it is simply marvellous and supports a huge amount of LOCAL people.
She dropped off the items she was donating and turned left to go to the library to change books but what did she see walking towards her? One of her old coats! She loved this coat but it was surplus to requirements, it had lived in New York City and came back when she retired. Yes, it was her coat and the very elderly woman wearing it looked very snappy in it!
She smiled at the woman and whispered "You're wearing my coat and it looks wonderful on you".. the woman grasped her hand and said "oh, bless you, I absolutely love it because it is so warm and yet so light", on they talked, it turns out her name is Elizabeth, that her brain & speech is as sharp as a tack, she's ninety five and lives in Sloane Avenue.
"To thank you for my lovely coat, would you care to join me for lunch at the club next Wednesday and stay for the quiz?", she asked my mum. "I'd love to do that, thank you" she said and so they agreed to meet next week at their (over 50's) club.
Into Holland & Barrett on the King's Road to take back some things that she cannot use, good, the credit went kerching back onto her card.
Next stop was the library to change some books.. more on books in my next post.. then she caught a bus down to the North End Road market, where she plucked a minute amount of money out of the bank and went off to plunder Karen's fruit and vegetable stall.
Yum, eight crisp apples, six persimmons, two celery, two HUGE fennel bulbs and a bowl of big fat carrots.. all for a fiver.
As she was plodding back home from the bus stop, she thought she felt tired and then realised it was way past three of the after noon clock and she'd eaten our egg before ten of the noon clock! She was HUNGRY & THIRSTY!
Lunch was simple, fish on the griddle with the remains of last nights noodles and vegetables, a little kiss and a cuddle with me for five minutes and off she went out again but just with her basket.
First to the V&A to ask "Where are my tickets for the Savage Beauty show?", grovel-grovel went the Membership desk, we are very sorry that they have not yet been sent out, they'll go out first class post on Monday". "Thank you and have a pleasant week end" she replied and left to take things back to another shop.
She had purchased several items but when she got home, she realised that she already had them! No point in duplicating stuff, besides the seeds she already had were of a better variety. Customer Service said "No problem, please put your card into the reader", goodie, another credit went kerching back onto her card, another "Thank you and have a pleasant week end", as she smiled and left the shop.
Warm.. she's too warm in boots! She never thought the day would come when she would feel or say that as it has been so dreary and wet this winter but yes, it is now time to wear proper shoes again! Yippee and what shoes! Beautiful elegant black shoes from Italy, bought from Zaira's cousin in 2005. What! It cannot be ten years ago that she was there with my greatest fan. But yes, it's ten years ago!
She finally got home. What a lot of to'ing and fro'ing was done today, it is highly satisfactory to get one's chores done, don't you agree? A cup of tea and an apple was her tea snacket, she tapped my post for me and now we have settled down for the evening.
Tomorrow is another busy day, she has a huge bag of dried Lavender to drop off to a friend who sells exquisite antique linens, there are more chores to do at home, one of which, is to get her black shoes out of the back cupboard.
We are looking forward to a pleasantly busy week next week, we have guests arriving on Monday, she has a dinner with friends on Tuesday, the lunch and the quiz with Elizabeth on Wednesday and she'll be joining Susan and her other Rotarian friends 'Singing with Dementia' on Friday afternoon.
Those weeds look as if they'll live to see another week.. but not for long.. no sirree!
Domani, manana, tomorrow.. We'll be back and we'll be talking about books.. reading them.. not nibbling them, as I have ashamed to say that I am guilty of doing, "I can't help it Your Honour, the spines are so crunchy!"
GeeGee Parrot.
March 6th, 2015.
The first out was a recycling trip, we do not need all these empty plastic tubs, the pile of which seem to grow ever upwards, so whoosh.. they all went off to the Recycling Depot in Danvers Street.
The next jaunt was to our local chemist, she had blitzed two small cupboards of out of date medicines and old vitamins, chemists are quite happy to dispose of them for you and she also dropped off some defunct batteries.
The next trip was back to New Horizons, a brilliant place in Cadogan Street which is staffed by volunteers and works in conjunction with AGE UK, their food is truly delicious and very reasonably priced. They have all manner of classes and activites every day, five days a week.
All the donations she gave yesterday went to this charity, it is simply marvellous and supports a huge amount of LOCAL people.
She dropped off the items she was donating and turned left to go to the library to change books but what did she see walking towards her? One of her old coats! She loved this coat but it was surplus to requirements, it had lived in New York City and came back when she retired. Yes, it was her coat and the very elderly woman wearing it looked very snappy in it!
She smiled at the woman and whispered "You're wearing my coat and it looks wonderful on you".. the woman grasped her hand and said "oh, bless you, I absolutely love it because it is so warm and yet so light", on they talked, it turns out her name is Elizabeth, that her brain & speech is as sharp as a tack, she's ninety five and lives in Sloane Avenue.
"To thank you for my lovely coat, would you care to join me for lunch at the club next Wednesday and stay for the quiz?", she asked my mum. "I'd love to do that, thank you" she said and so they agreed to meet next week at their (over 50's) club.
Into Holland & Barrett on the King's Road to take back some things that she cannot use, good, the credit went kerching back onto her card.
Next stop was the library to change some books.. more on books in my next post.. then she caught a bus down to the North End Road market, where she plucked a minute amount of money out of the bank and went off to plunder Karen's fruit and vegetable stall.
Yum, eight crisp apples, six persimmons, two celery, two HUGE fennel bulbs and a bowl of big fat carrots.. all for a fiver.
As she was plodding back home from the bus stop, she thought she felt tired and then realised it was way past three of the after noon clock and she'd eaten our egg before ten of the noon clock! She was HUNGRY & THIRSTY!
Lunch was simple, fish on the griddle with the remains of last nights noodles and vegetables, a little kiss and a cuddle with me for five minutes and off she went out again but just with her basket.
First to the V&A to ask "Where are my tickets for the Savage Beauty show?", grovel-grovel went the Membership desk, we are very sorry that they have not yet been sent out, they'll go out first class post on Monday". "Thank you and have a pleasant week end" she replied and left to take things back to another shop.
She had purchased several items but when she got home, she realised that she already had them! No point in duplicating stuff, besides the seeds she already had were of a better variety. Customer Service said "No problem, please put your card into the reader", goodie, another credit went kerching back onto her card, another "Thank you and have a pleasant week end", as she smiled and left the shop.
Warm.. she's too warm in boots! She never thought the day would come when she would feel or say that as it has been so dreary and wet this winter but yes, it is now time to wear proper shoes again! Yippee and what shoes! Beautiful elegant black shoes from Italy, bought from Zaira's cousin in 2005. What! It cannot be ten years ago that she was there with my greatest fan. But yes, it's ten years ago!
She finally got home. What a lot of to'ing and fro'ing was done today, it is highly satisfactory to get one's chores done, don't you agree? A cup of tea and an apple was her tea snacket, she tapped my post for me and now we have settled down for the evening.
Tomorrow is another busy day, she has a huge bag of dried Lavender to drop off to a friend who sells exquisite antique linens, there are more chores to do at home, one of which, is to get her black shoes out of the back cupboard.
We are looking forward to a pleasantly busy week next week, we have guests arriving on Monday, she has a dinner with friends on Tuesday, the lunch and the quiz with Elizabeth on Wednesday and she'll be joining Susan and her other Rotarian friends 'Singing with Dementia' on Friday afternoon.
Those weeds look as if they'll live to see another week.. but not for long.. no sirree!
Domani, manana, tomorrow.. We'll be back and we'll be talking about books.. reading them.. not nibbling them, as I have ashamed to say that I am guilty of doing, "I can't help it Your Honour, the spines are so crunchy!"
GeeGee Parrot.
March 6th, 2015.
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